Law Quotes - Page 77

It's a losing proposition, but one you can't refuse. It's the politics of contraband, it's the smuggler's blues.

Every nation is destined, by the law of God and humanity, to form a free and equal community of brothers.

I am mindful of the difference between the executive branch and the legislative branch. I assured all four of these leaders that I know the difference, and that difference is they pass the laws and I execute them.

The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.

It is astonishing that gay and lesbian Americans are still treated as second-class citizens. I am confident that, very soon, the laws of this nation will reflect the basic truth that gay and lesbian people - like all human beings - are born equal in dignity and rights.

I want freedom and I realize that the only way to get it is to quit breaking the law.

With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.

It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.

Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You restrain the will. You regulate the appetites. You fence in the horizons. You make a law for every movement. You deny the existence of chaos. You teach even the children to breathe slowly. You tame.

Here I am a woman attorney being told I can't practice law in slacks by a judge dressed in drag.

So long as man resists a situation, he will have it with him.

I saw in Chicago, on the street where I was visiting my sister-in-law, this "Urban Renewal" and it means one thing: "Negro removal." But they want to tear the homes down and put a parking lot there. Where are those people going? Where will they go? And as soon as Negroes take to the street demonstrating, one hears people say, "they shouldn't have done it." The world is looking at America and it is really beginning to show up for what it is really like. "Go Tell It on the Mountain." We can no longer ignore this, that America is not "the land of the free and the home of the brave."

Having forbidden all unlawful marriage, and all unseemly practice, and the union of women with women and men with men.

All you gotta do is chill out... Let go of control and chill out... Let it be, Trust.

The Universe does not know if the vibration you are offering is because of what you are imagining, or because of what you are observing.

Fear only exists when you do not understand that you have the power to project thought and that the Universe will respond.

The Universe is not punishing you or blessing you. The Universe is responding to the vibrational attitude that you are emitting. The more joyful you are, the more Well-Being flows to you-and you get to choose the details of how it flows.

There is no human law or law of God or national law that states that any healthy being has to permit the snake to eat the mouse - but on the other hand, it is perfectly justified to defend the mouse.

For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.

The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.

Government: If you refuse to pay unjust taxes, your property will be confiscated. If you attempt to defend your property, you will be arrested. If you resist arrest, you will be clubbed. If you defend yourself against clubbing, you will be shot dead. These procedures are known as the Rule of Law.

The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.

The world no longer has a choice between force and law; if civilization is to survive, it must choose the rule of law.

Our world has evolved and grown more technologically savvy. Lawmakers need to adjust to these changes.

The first spiritual law of success is the Law of Pure Potentiality. This law is based on the fact that we are, in our essential state, pure consciousness. Pure consciousness is pure potentiality; it is the field of all possibilities and infinite creativity. Pure consciousness is our spiritual essence. Being infinite and unbounded, it is also pure joy. Other attributes of consciousness are pure knowledge, infinite silence, perfect balance, invincibility, simplicity, and bliss. This is our essential nature. Our essential nature is one of pure potentiality.